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In his most famous experiment in the series, "Universe 25", [11] population peaked at 2,200 mice even though the habitat was built to tolerate a total population of 4000. Having reached a level of high population density, the mice began exhibiting a variety of abnormal, often destructive, behaviors including refusal to engage in courtship, and ...
It was here that his most famous experiment, the mouse universes (the most famous of which is universe 25), was created. [1] In July 1968, four pairs of mice were introduced into the habitat. The habitat was a 9-foot (2.7 m; 110 in; 270 cm) square metal pen with 4.5-foot-high (1.4 m; 54 in; 140 cm) sides.
Normally, the family would move to their summer home to avoid being uprooted, but Timothy is too ill to make the journey. An older mouse named Mr. Ages, who was a friend of Mrs. Frisby's late husband Jonathan, gives her some medicine for Timothy. On her way home, she saves the life of a young crow named Jeremy from the farmer's cat, Dragon.
The Seduction Experiment involved four groups of 8 rats. [4] Group CC was isolated in laboratory cages when they were weaned at 22 days of age, and lived there until the experiment ended at 80 days of age; Group PP was housed in Rat Park for the same period; Group CP was moved from laboratory cages to Rat Park at 65 days of age; and Group PC ...
The Utopia Experiment was an experiment by Dylan Evans, set up in 2006 at Netherton Farm, near Culbokie on the Black Isle peninsula in the Scottish highlands. [1] It involved a group of volunteers improvising a post-apocalyptic lifestyle .
The Great Filter is the idea that, in the development of life from the earliest stages of abiogenesis to reaching the highest levels of development on the Kardashev scale, there is a barrier to development that makes detectable extraterrestrial life exceedingly rare.
The Four Pests Campaign is representative of many of the overarching themes of Mao's Great Leap Forward. In order to expedite China's industrialization, and to achieve a socialist utopia, Mao sought to utilize China's natural and human resources. In this future utopia, cleanliness and hygiene would be critical. [13]
A biological cosmic ray experiment (BIOCORE) carried the five pocket mice (Perognathus longimembris), a species chosen for the experiment because they had well documented biological responses. Some advantages of the species included their small size, ease of maintenance in an isolated state (requiring no drinking water for the expected duration ...